Gregory Kowalski

Associate Professor Emeritus,  Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Contact

Office

  • 617.373.2971

Lab

  • 012C FR
  • 617.373.7648

Research Focus

Energy related and calorimeter studies related to pharmaceutical developments; simulation of thermal effects on laser beam propagation through heated materials; simulating microscale heat transfer phenomena and its effects on laser beam propagation; Simulation of laser welding processes

Education

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1978

Honors & Awards

  • Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Research Overview

Energy related and calorimeter studies related to pharmaceutical developments; simulation of thermal effects on laser beam propagation through heated materials; simulating microscale heat transfer phenomena and its effects on laser beam propagation; Simulation of laser welding processes

Selected Publications

  • A.J. Conway, W.M. Saadi, F.L. Sinatra, G.J. Kowalski, D. Larson, J. Fiering, Dispersion of a Nanoliter Bolus in Microfluidic Co-Flow, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering: Structures, Devices, and Systems, 24(3), 2014, 034006
  • U. Piana, G.J. Kowalski, M. Zenouzi, Incorporating Reliability and Failure Models into Energy System Analysis, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Energy Sustainability co-located with the 12th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Boston, MA, 2014, 1-9
  • A. Emdadi, Y. Emami, M. Zenouzi, A. Lak, B. Panahirad, A. Lotfi, F. Lak, G.J. Kowalski, Potential Of Electricity Generation By The Salinity Gradient Energy Conversion Technologies in the System of Urmia Lake- Gadarchay River, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Energy Sustainability co-located with the 12th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Boston, MA, 2014, 1-8
  • G.J. Kowalski, M. Modaresifar, M. Zenouzi, Significance of Transient Exergy Terms in a New Tray Design Solar Desalination Device, Journal of Energy Resources Technology, 137(1), 2014, 1-8

Faculty

Jun 01, 2023

Advancing Concentrated Solar Power Education

MIE Professors Hameed Metghalchi (PI), Yiannis Levendis, and Emeritus Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski were awarded a $265,000 grant to create “An Educational Program on Concentrated Solar Power and Heliostats for Power Generation and Industrial Processes” from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)’s Heliostat Consortium.

Bala Maheswaran Presenting at the ASEE conference.

Faculty

Apr 27, 2022

ASEE-NE2022 Conference Awards

The ASEE-NE Chair and FYE/ECE Teaching Professor Bala Maheswaran led the ASEE Northeast 2022 Conference at Wentworth Institute of Technology from April 22 -23, 2022 which was resoundingly successful with extensive participation in the post-pandemic era. The Northeastern University students and faculty contributed their work at the conference (https://wit.edu/ASEENE2022), and won the following awards: Best […]

Gregory Kowalski

Faculty

Jun 22, 2020

Improved Methods of Calorimetry

MIE Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski was awarded a patent for creating a “Stop-start method in a microfluidic calorimeter.”

Graduate

Feb 16, 2017

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Jul 14, 2016

Microfluidic Calorimeter

MIE Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski was awarded a patent for his designs for a microfluidic calorimeter system & its method of use. Abstract Source: USPTO Systems and methods are disclosed herein for a microfluidic calorimeter apparatus. A microfluidic calorimeter system includes a calorimetry apparatus and a processor in connection with the apparatus. The apparatus includes […]

Staff

May 05, 2015

COE Faculty and Staff Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2015 winners of the COE Faculty and Staff Awards: Outstanding Teachers of First Year Engineering Students Thomas Gilbert, Chemistry Joshua Hertz, Engineering Marco Rainho, Mathematics Swastik Kar, Physics Martin W. Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award Marvin Onabajo, ECE Outstanding Cooperative Education Coordinator Award Alison Nogueira, MIE Outstanding Staff Award Roy Dalsheim, Student Services Susan […]

May 05, 2015

COE Faculty & Staff Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2015 winners of the COE Faculty and Staff Awards.

Mar 20, 2014

Congratulations to recipients of the FY15 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants

19 COE faculty were recipients of FY15 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 11 different projects representing over $500K dollars of investment in research.

Jun 26, 2013

Hands-on Skill Retention

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski & Assistant Academic Specialist Bridget Smyser received the DELOS Best Paper Award for “Examining skill retention from a redesigned laboratory course to capstone design sequence”. The Division of Experimental and Laboratory-Oriented Studies is concerned with the laboratory component of engineering curricula. Thus, it consists of people who […]

Alumni

May 28, 2013

Students Awarded Patent for Capstone Project

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Graduates Michael Witonis, Jay Seiter, Morgan Misek, Joshua Filgate, and Jesse Kuhn have been awarded a patent for their 2007 capstone project entitled "Internal Gearbox for Downhill Mountain Bikes" under the direction of Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski. The gearbox created in the project is meant to replace the current drive train of […]

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